Prune
4+

Cultivate what matters

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Description

~ Apple Game of the Year 2015 ~~ TIME Magazine Game of the Year 2015 ~

Prune is a love letter to trees. A game about the beauty and joy of cultivation.

With a swipe of a finger, grow and shape your tree into the sunlight while avoiding the dangers of a hostile world. Bring life to a forgotten landscape and uncover a story hidden deep beneath the soil.

• A unique digital plant for your pocket• Beautiful, minimalist art and a super clean interface—it's just you and the trees• Meditative music and sound design for you to zen out to• No IAP, no monetization strategy, no currencies• Share screenshots of your unique tree creations with friends• Synchronize progress across all your devices using iCloud

----- RECEPTION -----

"Unlike anything I've played before... the kind of experience I want to pull out to show my friends." - The Verge

"Prune is an awe-inspiring work of digital poetry that transcends its initial subject material to explore a much larger, much more complex theme, in an articulate and powerfully moving manner" - 10/10 Pocket Gamer

"A collaboration that feels more like a dance than puzzle-solving." - Kill Screen

What’s New

Version History

1.1.3

1.1.2

A couple more iPhone X fixes/tweaks! Also fixed a small rendering issue. Happy pruning!

1.1.1

2 Nov 2017

Various optimizations and support for iOS 11 and iPhone X. Happy pruning!

1.0.68

27 Oct 2016

Fixed the game progress bug (hopefully for good). Really, really sorry for any frustration this has caused. This has been an elusive bug to fix, only affecting certain players on certain versions of iOS/Prune.

NOTE: This update will not restore lost progress. If you've been affected by this, please do not hesitate to contact me and I'll try my best to help.

-Joel (joel@prunegame.com)

1.0.66

22 Oct 2016

UPDATE: **AVOID UPDATING THE GAME IF YOU'RE NOT CURRENTLY HAVING ISSUES** Sounds like this update has caused some to lose game progress. :( Looking into it--will try and fix ASAP!

• Reduced battery drain• Performance optimizations - should especially improve some of the later levels• Better support for iOS 9• Level tweaks• Blue Stars - made some presentation changes so they should be more obvious upon completing the game• Miscellaneous bug fixes

Thanks for playing, and if you like the game a review would be much appreciated!-Joel

1.0.21

11 Aug 2015

Improvements:-Bug fixes to address some sound/save issues people were having-Memory optimizations to help address some of the slowdowns in later levels-Smarter camera resume from manual control - this should help If you like to pinch/zoom the camera a lot!-Fixed stretched splash image occurring on some devices

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Thanks so much for playing and supporting Prune. We've been overwhelmed by the amount of love and support you've shown us these past couple weeks!

We're a very tiny team but we're working hard to make sure everybody is able to enjoy Prune!

Thanks,-Joel

1.0.1

18 Jul 2015

-Bug fixin', also reduced load times and app size-Added menu toggles for music and sound effects

1.0.0

Ratings and Reviews

4.2 out of 5

27 Ratings

27 Ratings

Editors’ Choice

A rare kind of triumph, Prune takes a simple idea—pruning trees—and shapes it into a creative, deeply playable puzzle game. The visuals echo the style of Japanese painting in striking fashion, and the beautiful music instills a contemplative tone as you swipe to trim the limbs of a rapidly growing tree and guide it around obstacles. There’s no frantic pace, no demanding skills to master—only a quietly bewitching and unforgettable experience.

Editors’ Choice

A rare kind of triumph, Prune takes a simple idea—pruning trees—and shapes it into a creative, deeply playable puzzle game. The visuals echo the style of Japanese painting in striking fashion, and the beautiful music instills a contemplative tone as you swipe to trim the limbs of a rapidly growing tree and guide it around obstacles. There’s no frantic pace, no demanding skills to master—only a quietly bewitching and unforgettable experience.

Jon_Dodson
,02/04/2018

Mutant plant butchery fun

In my opinion, this app isn’t more of an art experience than a game. It isn’t a zen like chill-out and it doesn't make the stresses and strains of the day melt away into a serene and beautiful melange of sounds and lights. Instead, this garden simulator requires its curator to butcher triffid like plants which grown at an unholy speed to guide them to the light so that their spores can propagate and one day, no doubt, their species can take over the planet and it will become a weed infested nightmare world of dendritic tentacles suffocating each other in a bitter and brutal race for light and survival. Plant sentience is likely just around the corner and after that there can be no doubt that the true purpose of their existence, the total elimination of the human race, will become apparent to the remaining miserable wretches who have not already killed themselves in despair. I love it.

Jon_Dodson
,02/04/2018

Mutant plant butchery fun

In my opinion, this app isn’t more of an art experience than a game. It isn’t a zen like chill-out and it doesn't make the stresses and strains of the day melt away into a serene and beautiful melange of sounds and lights. Instead, this garden simulator requires its curator to butcher triffid like plants which grown at an unholy speed to guide them to the light so that their spores can propagate and one day, no doubt, their species can take over the planet and it will become a weed infested nightmare world of dendritic tentacles suffocating each other in a bitter and brutal race for light and survival. Plant sentience is likely just around the corner and after that there can be no doubt that the true purpose of their existence, the total elimination of the human race, will become apparent to the remaining miserable wretches who have not already killed themselves in despair. I love it.

D A S Macalister
,19/07/2017

More an art experience than a game - beautiful!

If you buy this purely as a game you will probably enjoy the logic of it for a little while, then get bored. However...The point of this app is it's utterly beautiful simplicity. From it's deliberately minimalist instructions that encourage you to explore a stunningly stylish interface to the background sounds this is a piece of art.In a world focused so often on the destination Prune provides an opportunity, for a while, just to enjoy the experience of taking part in a journey.I found Prune quite spiritual with its tough but encouraging message about the effects (positive and negative) of our interactions with nature.Throughout the story the landscape changes as human activity affects the world, making it harder for life to thrive. However, a key point of Prune is that we have the power to help that life in its search for the light it needs.Its not an app I use every day or every week but I'm glad I have it and every so often enjoy rediscovering its uniqueness.

I love it.

D A S Macalister
,19/07/2017

More an art experience than a game - beautiful!

If you buy this purely as a game you will probably enjoy the logic of it for a little while, then get bored. However...The point of this app is it's utterly beautiful simplicity. From it's deliberately minimalist instructions that encourage you to explore a stunningly stylish interface to the background sounds this is a piece of art.In a world focused so often on the destination Prune provides an opportunity, for a while, just to enjoy the experience of taking part in a journey.I found Prune quite spiritual with its tough but encouraging message about the effects (positive and negative) of our interactions with nature.Throughout the story the landscape changes as human activity affects the world, making it harder for life to thrive. However, a key point of Prune is that we have the power to help that life in its search for the light it needs.Its not an app I use every day or every week but I'm glad I have it and every so often enjoy rediscovering its uniqueness.